Hehehhe... no, don't get me started on the "tomato tomahto" CON-troversy.
Fun story. Last time I was in the UK (went to London, Cardiff, Manchester, Edinburgh) I attended a meeting in Edinburgh with about 25 people from around Britain. As we discussed the topic at hand, I heard many different accents, but I could easily understand them.... EXCEPT for two gentlemen who might have been from John O' Groats or some other remote area. I could not understand a single word they said. It was, to use an English idiom, Greek to me.
To this day I marvel how the English language has so many varieties of expression. The many English gifts that it gave the world -- Chaucer, Shakespeare, Magna Carta, Churchill -- the English language itself is by far the greatest gift. So I thank you, cousin, for that.
Heheheh... understood. In case you haven't seen it, we recently watched a TV series called "Clarkson's Farm." It's Jeffrey Clarkson of Top Gear fame, who bought a farm and became a farmer with no farming experience at all. Hilarity ensues. One of the people on his farm is such a chap, who cannot be understood. Even the closed captions when he's "speaking" is just a series of question marks.
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I highly recommend it.
Hehehhe... no, don't get me started on the "tomato tomahto" CON-troversy.
Fun story. Last time I was in the UK (went to London, Cardiff, Manchester, Edinburgh) I attended a meeting in Edinburgh with about 25 people from around Britain. As we discussed the topic at hand, I heard many different accents, but I could easily understand them.... EXCEPT for two gentlemen who might have been from John O' Groats or some other remote area. I could not understand a single word they said. It was, to use an English idiom, Greek to me.
To this day I marvel how the English language has so many varieties of expression. The many English gifts that it gave the world -- Chaucer, Shakespeare, Magna Carta, Churchill -- the English language itself is by far the greatest gift. So I thank you, cousin, for that.
Heheheh... understood. In case you haven't seen it, we recently watched a TV series called "Clarkson's Farm." It's Jeffrey Clarkson of Top Gear fame, who bought a farm and became a farmer with no farming experience at all. Hilarity ensues. One of the people on his farm is such a chap, who cannot be understood. Even the closed captions when he's "speaking" is just a series of question marks. ???????? I highly recommend it.